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grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd
for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
of software and documentation on the CD.

nolvm: completely disable LVM code/checks; by
default (so without using a special bootoption) grml runs 'lvdisplay'
and if something can be found the user gets a hint to execute 'Start
lvm2' to set it up

Important Changes

To avoid problems with isolinux/syslinux on older hardware (see
syslinux mailinglist) we decided to put several files like kernel
and initrd from /boot/isolinux/ into a new directory named
/boot/$GRML_FLAVOUR/. This should improve the possibility for
supporting multiboot in the future as well.

Due to the new initial bootprocess (which is based on
live-initramfs) some bootoptions might not work as
expected or changed its behaviour. The grml team is working on merging
outstanding features. If you think you found a bootoption that does not
work as expected/documented please report it.

The bootoption expert has been dropped. It is
deprecated nowadays. The bootoption splash has been
renamed into textsplash to avoid clashes with graphical
bootsplashes.

Packages / Software

Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
available at the Debian section. See dpkg_get_selections
for a main package listing and dpkg_list for a more detailed
list of packages shipped with grml 1.1.

Updates

Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20071225 (plus some further selected updates).

Removed 82 packages [please notice that some of them are available under
different names/in different packages]:

Upgrade notes

As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at the upgrading webpage in
the grml-wiki as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
subscribe to the grml-user
mailinglist!

Thanks

Many thanks in this release go to Henning Sprang, Thomas Lange,
Michael Schmitt, Daniel Baumann, Karl Voit, Norbert Tretkowski,
Jan-Pieter Jacobs, Wolfgang Karall, Darshaka Pathirana, Andrea Mayr and
Wernfried Haas for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of
you who donated something to the grml-team
and of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
release!